BSI survey of 1,293 young Britons finds they live life online but want an escape route as technology fails to make them happy.

An EOS client of mine made me aware of this Netflix Culture Power Point deck. It was created by Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO, and Patty McCord, Chief Talent Officer at Netflix from 1998 to 2012, and has been viewed more than 5 million times. You can read the Harvard Business Review article (which also contains the PPT deck) authored by Patty McCord here. She summarizes five of the central ideas that she and Hastings were focused on when they and a few other colleagues created the deck. Few could argue with the success of it given the success of Netflix. It is great food for thought for any company. You should read her article as well as page through the deck. See my observations below the slide deck.

Slow TV is attracting viewers with hits such as a knitting marathon, burning firewood and swimming salmon

The internet is far less secure than it ought to be.

Blockchain evidence points to users carrying out market manipulation to inflate trading volumes on the popular political betting platform.

A scathing Navy investigation reveals how USS Manchester's enlisted leaders endangered their ship with an unauthorized Starlink Wi-Fi setup.

Online dating may be partially to blame for an increase in income inequality in the US in recent decades, according to a research paper.

There is no "online world." That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what can take its place?

One job isn't enough isn't enough for a lot of people

Parts of the U.S. have experienced record-setting heat waves over the past few summers, which may have caused pharmaceutical ingredients to degrade while en route.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

For the sixth year in a row, India led the world in internet shutdowns, disrupting the internet at least 116 times.

The unrest is centered around the country’s quota system that requires a third of government jobs to be reserved for relatives of veterans who had fought for Bangladesh’s independence from Pakistan in 1971.

'Diplomatic race' with Washington as Beijing pursues self-sufficient global network

It never should have begun.

A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

A random, obscure content generator for the web. Discover media with zero views from YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and more.

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but to ask people for information from the Internet, because right now it’s all full of AI dogshit.

It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for the rock-bottom price of $3.2bn. Credit Suisse’s fall from grace is especially remarkable given that it was

Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades

What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home

It is the zoomers’ web now.

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